Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
Verily, we did invoke Him [alone] ere this: [and now He has shown us] that He alone is truly benign, a true dispenser of grace!”
Arthur John Arberry
we were before ever calling upon Him; surely He is the All-benign, the All-compassionate.
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
"Truly, we did call unto Him from of old: truly it is He, the Beneficent, the Merciful!"
Arabic
إِنَّا كُنَّا مِن قَبۡلُ نَدۡعُوهُۖ إِنَّهُۥ هُوَ ٱلۡبَرُّ ٱلرَّحِیمُ ٢٨
Transliteration (2021)
innā kunnā min qablu nadʿūhu innahu huwa l-baru l-raḥīm